Discovered on May 27, 2011
Tunnels Hidden Below Downtown Winnipeg?
My response to a treasure-hunting thread on /r/winnipeg.
Urban Exploring in Peg city.
May 2011
Discovered on May 26, 2011
Teaching Ruby using "Coding Challenges"
Slides from a talk I gave yesterday for the RRC BIT Instructor Show and Tell.
Discovered on May 19, 2011
Discovered on May 15, 2011
Discovered on May 13, 2011
A Daft Punk megamix visualized using HTML5 with Canvas/Js.
From embryo AD.’s “Portcullis”.
Gillian Sze reads from The Anatomy of Clay.
Discovered on May 10, 2011
Human Powered Quad-blade Helicopter
There will be a test flight tomorrow, an attempt to win the Sikorsky Prize.
2011 Canadian Federal Election Visualized
The election results beautifully mapped. Includes some analysis on a NDP/Lib merger.
One question though: Folks are framing an NDP/Lib merger as “uniting the left”, but the Libs aren’t really left, are they?
Actually, two questions: Do we really want a two party polarized political landscape like the US? Political discourse in Canada is already black and white enough, let’s not remove all the grey.
Discovered on May 9, 2011
“My Winnipeg is an old man in a moth-bitten buffalo coat.
He got it from his father, who used to be a police officer here before the streetcars went to rust. It was balled up in the attic, stuffed in a pair of tattered Eaton’s bags and crushed beneath a box which held his mother’s set of silver. The forks and serving spoons were black with tarnish; he made his daughter take them to the pawn shop. She never came back with any money: he hopes she just took them home, but never thinks to ask.” read more
Discovered on May 5, 2011
Early Winnipeg Rap Videos - Part 2
Frek Sho - Patience 1996 - Video no longer available, just music.
Early Winnipeg Rap Videos - Part 1
via: Co-Op’s Facebook Feed